Distance from Daejeon to Shanghai
Daejeon (South Korea) and Shanghai (China) are 790 km apart — that's 491 miles or 427 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 790 km · 491 mi · 427 nmi
- Initial bearing Daejeon → Shanghai
- 226° (SW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Daejeon
- 42° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 1 h 35 min
- Time zones
- Daejeon UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 33 min — the sun rises earlier in Daejeon
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Daejeon
- 36.3491, 127.3849
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:43 UTC / 10:31 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.